PARIS SENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1928, Page 2

PARIS SENSATION

BANDIT WITH PISTOLS. Australian Press Assn.—United Service PARIS, August 10. A crowd of shoppers at the Faubourg Du Temple found themselves involved in a cinema-like drama at noon. A bandit strolled into the shop of M. Adre Monnet a jeweller. He shot the proprietor dead, and then grabbed a tray of diamonds, but he found his retreat was out off. Thereupon he fired at random, injuring a man and a woman. The bandit then turned and bolted upstairs. In the meantime, Madame Monnet, in a room above., hearing tho shots, and seeing the bandit coming, screamed and then she leapt from a window, hut her fall was broken upon an awning and she tumbled unhurt upon the crowd, below.

The bandit was now in the same room as she had lx‘cn, and he appeared at tho window with pistols in both hands. Ho fired madly into the and into a wine shop opposite, doing deadly work among the wine bottles. Several hundred police then surrounded the house. They summoned a special Gas Brigade, as well as steel shieldsmen. A hole was made in the wall, and asphyxiating gas was pumped in.

Then when there were no more shots the police forced an entry. They found that the bandit was dead, with a bullet in his head, a policeman having picked him off from a window across the street.